Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Partition of Bengal
The Correct Answer is "Partition of Bengal". - The Swadeshi Movement was proclaimed on August 7, 1905, at the Calcutta Town Hall, in Bengal.
- The Boycott movement was also launched along with the Swadeshi movement.
- The movements included using goods produced in India and burning British-made goods.
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak encouraged Swadeshi and Boycott movement after the British government decided on the partition of Bengal.
Timeline of Swadeshi movement:
- In 1900, Bengal was the major province in British India. The Indian national movement began in Bengal and thus, Britishers decided to part in Bengal.
- When Lord Curzon, then Viceroy of India, announced the partition of Bengal in July 1905, Indian National Congress, initiated the Swadeshi movement in Bengal.
- Swadeshi movement was launched as a protest movement which also gave a lead to the Boycott movement in the country.
- In 1909, the movement had spread across the country and people had started anti-partition and anti-colonial movements.
- In Andhra Pradesh, the Swadeshi movement was also known as the Vandemataram movement.
- In 1910, there were many secret associations that had been set up and there were many revolutionary movements, which were synonymous with the Swadeshi movement
- Later movements by Mahatma Gandhi from 1915, such as the Satyagraha movement, the Non-Cooperation movement, etc. were based on the Swadeshi movement.
Key people in the Swadeshi movement: - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Aurobindo Ghosh
- VO Chidambaram Pillai
- Babu Genu
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